Senate's vote to extend jobless benefits delayed
Detroit News
Washington -- Senate Democrats and Republicans traded blows today over who is responsible for the slow pace of voting to extend unemployment benefits, leaving in doubt a final vote before Wednesday at the earliest on the high-stakes issue t...
Election results for Altoona, Bondurant, Carlisle, Norwalk
Des Moines Register
Newcomer Kyle Mertz, 27, collected 734 votes to earn a seat on the Altoona City Council. Two other available seats went to incumbent Michelle Sloan, 45, with 612 votes, and incumbent Joe Riding, 47, with 598 votes. Incumbent Skip Conkling, ...
Crackdown as one-third of Streets, San out daily
Chicago Sun-Times
Lou Phillips, business manager of Laborers Local 1001, could not be reached for comment. Streets and Sanitation spokesman Matt Smith refused to comment on specifics of the absenteeism crackdown or the department's "internal personnel polici...
Whole Foods hearing postponed
Burlington Free Press
SOUTH BURLINGTON -- Developers for a proposed commercial and residential development that would include a Whole Foods Market in South Burlington have asked for a delay in presenting new materials to city planners. Updates to a traffic study...
Tunkhannock pulls plug on sewers
New Age-Examiner
Alice Stroud, who lives off SR 1001 said that she was told that if she lived along the sewer line route that she would be mandated to be a part of it. "If they're asking just us people along the route to shell out $5,000 or $6,000 in additi...
Three newcomers elected to Manly City Council
Globe Gazette
MANLY — Three new councilmen were elected Tuesday to the Manly City Council. Steve Leake, 32, received the most votes with 157. Owner of Bucks Recycling, he had never before run for public office. Ron Post, 60, received 152 votes. He is emp...
Driver to serve 20 years in couple's deaths
Jackson Clarion-Ledger
There were tears flowing on both sides. Two families sat in a packed courtroom with totally contrasting emotions -one demanding a maximum sentence for the deaths of their loved ones and the other begging for leniency. The tragic event that ...
GOP Boycotts Senate Panel On Climate Change
NPR News
Only one Republican attended the start of a Senate committee debate on a bill to limit greenhouse gases. Republicans say the measure's economic costs have not been fully examined. The Environment and Public Works Committee needs two Republi...
Wegmans foresees expansion from Washington to Boston
Democrat and Chronicle
In an interview today at company headquarters, Wegmans Food Markets CEO Danny Wegman said the firm’s strategy foresees growth largely outside New York state. Wegmans is opening its 75th store in Leesburg, Va., this Sunday and is already a m...
Have you picked up this week's Bridgewater Independent?
Abington Mariner
A&A Gasoline, 1001 Bedford St. Bernier's Grocery Store, 905 Plymouth St. Better Bean Coffee, 20 Central Square Brennan Smoke Shop, 6 Broad St. Bridgewater Community Bank, 110 Main St. Bridgewater House of Pizza, 33 Main St. Bridgewater Liqu...
SARKOZY HITS LOWEST POLL SCORE SINCE ELECTION
Tocqueville Connection
Sixty percent of respondents were unhappy with his performance, according to the telephone poll of 1001 people carried out on October 29 and 30 usingthe quota method. Sarkozy is fighting to reassure voters after his government ...
CVU back in Division I final
Burlington Free Press
HINESBURG — A quick-thinking through ball created space — and a breakaway — for a goal. A give-and-go 40 yards away from the net produced another tally. The Champlain Valley Union High School boys soccer team, making a effort to maximize it...
Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss Remembered
NPR News
Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as having resha...
